InkhareMost coloring apps are somewhere to start a picture.This is somewhere to finish one.
Inkhare is a color by number game with no advertising in it. Choose a color, tap a numbered region, and the shape fills. Everything is already on your phone, so it works with no connection at all.
Free. No ads, no in app purchases, no account.
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Picked up part way through, the way you would find it. Choose a color and tap a numbered shape, or press Next.
How it goes
Pick a color, tap a number, keep going until it is done.
The number goes under the color
Tap a region carrying your color and it fills. The numeral disappears under the paint and does not come back.
Nothing is too small to read
No squinting after a speck of gray. Pinch in and every region carries a number you can read. The tool that cuts a picture into regions refuses to emit a shape too small to hold its own numeral, so a picture that fails that test never ships at all.
Then it plays itself back
When the last region fills, the painting replays in the order you actually painted it, from your first tap to your last. Not a random fill pretending to be your work. Then it is yours, to keep or to share.
What is not in it
The quiet part is the product.
People turn their wifi off in the middle of a picture to stop the ads. They write it down in reviews as a tip for each other. This is the app they were trying to get to.
No ad has ever run in this app.
Not between pictures, not over the canvas, not at the end. Not with sound, and never anywhere your thumb can hit one by accident. There is no advertising code inside it to run one, and an automated check fails the project if any advertising library ever gets in, including by way of some other dependency.
Nothing in here is locked.
No subscription, no weekly plan, no coins, no hints to unlock, no premium tier. Every painting is open the first time you open the app, and nothing changes its mind after a week.
Your music keeps playing.
Most people color with something in their ears. Inkhare mixes with whatever is already playing instead of taking the audio away from it, so a podcast or an audiobook runs straight through. The silent switch is respected too.
No streaks to keep.
No daily events, no competitions, no counter that resets and makes you feel bad for missing a day. Come back in a month and nothing will have been taken away.
Nothing to sign up for.
No account, no email address, no password to forget, and nothing that can be banned. You open it and you are already in.
Works with no connection at all.
Every painting is already in the app. Airplane mode, the subway, the one room of the house with no signal. There is nothing to load, because there are no ads to load.
What you get to finish
Pictures that take a while.
Drawn for grown ups, not scaled down from a children's coloring book. Every one of them is open the first time you open the app.
How a picture gets in
Most of what we draw never ships.
Every picture is looked at one at a time and cut for the reasons this kind of art usually fails: the linework does not close, an animal has the wrong number of legs, a sign in the background says nothing. What survives is cut into regions by a tool that will not emit a shape too small to hold its own number, and fails rather than ship one.
The drawings are made with AI and then put through that. It is why new pictures arrive slowly. Anything that appears at the rate a machine can make it was not looked at by anyone, and you can usually tell.
A picture you cannot finish is not worth shipping, whoever or whatever drew it. We would rather add one you want to finish than a hundred you scroll past.
Questions
The things people ask.
Plenty of apps say ad free and then show ads. Why is this different?
Because it is not a promise about what we choose to show you, it is a statement about what is inside the app. There is no advertising software in Inkhare at all. An automated check runs against every package the app depends on and fails the project if any advertising library enters it, including indirectly through something else. It carries its own decoy entries that fail the run if the check itself ever stops working. An app with no ad code cannot serve an ad, and cannot quietly change its mind in an update without that check going off.
Does it work without an internet connection?
Completely. Every picture is bundled in the app, so nothing is downloaded while you paint. You can put the phone in airplane mode and lose nothing.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign up and no login. Your progress is saved on your device.
Can I move my progress to a new phone?
Not by us, and this is the one real trade. There is no account and no server, so we hold nothing and can restore nothing. Your phone's own backup, iCloud or Google, may carry the app's data across when you set up a new device, but that is between you and Apple or Google and we cannot promise it. If the app is deleted and reinstalled with no backup in play, the paintings start over.
Is the artwork made with AI?
Yes. Every piece is generated, then reviewed by hand, and every region is checked to be fillable and large enough to carry a legible number. There is more above about what that review actually catches.
Does it work on iPad and on tablets?
Yes. Both get a wider layout built for the screen rather than a stretched phone. On iPad it also rotates to any orientation; Android tablets stay in portrait.
Support
A person reads this.
Anything at all: a picture that will not open, a region that will not fill, an idea for what to draw next.
Put something down and finish it.
Free, on iPhone, iPad and Android.